During one particularly eventful summer in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and John Polidori rented the Villa Diodati manor in Cologny, near Lake Geneva.

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In 1987 she appeared as Mary Shelley in Gothic, Ken Russell's lurid take on the visit by the Shelley's and Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

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At 6 this morning my parents, Ted and Donna Storke, who live in Oceanside (a few blocks from Camp Pendleton), received a call from the Villa Monte Vista Care Center where my grandma, Mary Storke, lives.

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